This is an analysis of the poem The Isle Of Saturn that begins with:

In one of these (islands) the barbarians
feign that Saturn is held prisoner by Zeus....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abX XcXXd adcXd ababX XabXa aedaX aXXXa faXfX edaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011000100 11100110011 10 111110110100 1011010011 10100110001000 1000110001 100101010 11101001101 1011110001010 10110010101 111011001000 10111010 1000110101010 101111101010 101100111010 110010101010 00101110 101001011110 101010010001 101011100110 10101011111 100111110 101010101010 1110111011 101011101010 11101010101 10010111 10001110101 1010101011000 10101010111 110010101010 0010011 101110101110 10100101110010 111110111110 1010100101110 10101100 101110011010 101010101110 1010100101011 111111101010 100101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Isle Of Saturn;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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